Jacob's Salary Cap/Player Builds/Tanking and Draft Pick/League Parity/Trade Deadline Manifesto and Theme Week Entry

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26 minutes ago, Gaikoku-hito said:

I have thick skin and having different point of views is always a good thing!!

 

All your points are valid but I would hate to see Toronto blow up their roster when they have a chance to actually re-tool. Yes, It isn`t going to easy to find replacements for Callahan and Machado but they do have a core that is developing their. A few teams are already in Cap situations like Moscow, Vancouver, Davos, Calgary; just off the top of my head as I think I had six teams in cap trouble. I know in Vancouver we have no choice but to move at least one 6M player this coming off season; if not more depending on announcement of cap drops. Cap drop would really make it tough for these cap teams and Vancouver btw!! My point is if Doug becomes creative he has a chance at being competitive again sooner then later... It might not be next season but he doesn`t need to go scorched earth like we did in Vancouver and regretted it.  We should have re-tooled but we also go very luck that we were one of the only teams selling at the time and high elite player so we were able to more than recoup our assets back in some deep drafts. These deep drafts simply aren`t around at the moment; which is hurting teams that decide to collect draft pick volume over the value picks. I know from my prospective we will not be going scorch earth when our current core is ready to retire as we will try to re-tool via trades, draft picks and UFA this time around. 

 

But yes, I can also see that Toronto could have benefited from trying to trade Callahan and Machado by this trade deadline but I also think too many teams are already against the cap so have limited room to bring these types of the players on-board. The great thing about this league is their is no right way or wrong way to build a team per say!

Also agree that Toronto if they had their first round pick would benefit from the suggested Gold Draft; is that what is it called?

 

I think it is an interesting idea since I think we would see teams in the 14-12 overall place likely selecting near the top of the draft and since in theory they have better teams getting better higher picks could means moving them faster back to being competitive. I also looked at the current standings and all teams are still eligible for the play-offs with LA in the next day or two likely as the first eliminated so hopefully someone will continue to track this to see how it would work!!

I agree retooling is usually better, just in this case I think you have 2 deeper classes coming in S99 and S100 that you could prep for. Also, tried to make a sheet to track it but had to give up for tonight as it wasn't collecting the data the way I wanted. I will say you'd be shocked how many teams could have made moves for Callahan and Machado. Most of those teams would need to move like some kind of poppy depth forward for a bit of cap relief, but like Riga has tons of cap room shockingly, I think Chicago has a deceptive amount (obfuscated by the not obvious backup goalie discount), New York had some space, Vancouver had the room to upgrade a depth forward, Moscow and Davos both were pretty much spent and Malmo just doesn't really have future assets they want to move. Like maybe could have traded a Bret Weier or something for an upgrade but we pretty much have been discussing that we want to stick to the retool we worked towards last offseason. Malmo is like the prime example of what you are describing. Like imagine if Toronto made the move for the prospect that we did? I just don't know if any team has a prospect pool with moveable guys like Helsinki did, and also we did it before we lost our boys which I think helped a lot.